Bet they paid for a few OF subscriptions though =) as a straight male myself, Harrison Ford was a good looking man lol.

Lot of prudes in the greys too afraid to admit their feelings. 

The big thing that often gets overlooked is that is that adding software-based antipiracy measures to your game is so inexpensive relative to the development costs of the game, that there’s very little disincentive to avoid it.

As Prime Directive stated, the salient reality is that the majority of people who pirate…

Have you read the actual article? The Ubisoft rep explicitly states that the company still views purchasing games as an important option for consumers. They just believe that subscriptions are an equally valid option for many consumers and that this group will grow over time.

How is it bootlicking to say that piracy doesn’t send the right message? The proposed alternative is to not play the game at all, which is correct.

There’s an actual grown-up in the comment section. It’s like spotting a unicorn in the wild.

https://www.vox.com/money/24009905/money-personal-finance-goals-expectations-needs-vs-wants-economy

I remember, this was decades ago, there was a PC game I played where it had a gamebreaking bug at the final moment of the game and patching wasn’t a thing yet. So, unless you went to the website (this was also back when much of the world was on dialup if they had net at all) and download it. Otherwise you could never…

They go on sale more frequently and on bigger discounts than physical though.

Future? Digital has been a thing for almost twenty years at this point and PC has been all-digital for well over a decade. It’s been pretty great, actually. The PC game market has never been stronger and there are a ton of games that simply wouldn’t exist if games were still chained to retail.

They’re usually health/fitness/sleep-tracking thingamabobs that sort of duplicate what your watch does, only without a screen.

Wow, I couldn’t possibly disagree more. Most people do not seek out a re-hash of how shitty the world is for their entertainment.

Bruh. Relax. Both can be good and not everything needs to be a commentary on Capitalism despite how awful it is.

Also, TLOU is not just a depiction of the collapse of society, that is just a backdrop to it’s more prominent themes of grief and the futility of revenge.

Yeah Jedi Survivor is on sale across platforms, debating whether I want it on PC or if I want to try it out on my new Series X

The dollar to hour ratio for Mass Effect is very high. 

The dude was put into social care for physically assaulting his own mother at one point and has been throwing urine at people in the hospital and is violent. Also shows no remorse and says he’ll continue hacking if he gets out and reoffended while on parole.

Wouldn’t the draconian solution have been to put him in a normal prison?

Not when you actually take everything into account. He’s not being sent to prison, and can be released if it’s determined he’s no longer a threat to society. He is pretty much flat out stating that he’s going to do it again the second he gets a chance, so why just let him out? He’s also shown violent tendencies, so…

He can appeal and there’s parole if he behaves himself but right now doesn’t think he did anything wrong and wants to get right back to hacking and causing harm to people.

What do you think we should do?

I’m as anti-prison as you can get when it comes to anything short of violent crimes but even then I believe in rehabilitation over incarceration. However, I’m already seeing takes like “he’s just a hacker, he didn’t hurt anyone” which is absolutely the most braindead take I could have imagined.